Kathleen Adele BRENNAN

BRENNAN, Kathleen Adele

Service Number: Nurse
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Nurse
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 15 November 1882
Home Town: Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling: Sacred heart Convent School, Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Nurse
Died: Died of Illness, Leicester, England, 24 November 1918, aged 36 years
Cemetery: Leicester (Welford Road) Cemetery, England
Screen Wall. O1. 198.
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World War 1 Service

24 Nov 1918: Involvement Nurse, Nurse

Nurse Kathleen Adele Brennan


Kathleen Adele Brennan was born in Sydney on 15 November 1882, the eldest of five children. On the outbreak of the First World War, it was agreed that while all five children wanted to serve, one girl and one boy would need to remain in Australia to look after their elderly parents.
Kathleen was able to go, and enlisted with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) with the Australian Red Cross. She left Australia in September 1916 on the SS Osterley and on arrival in England was posted to the 5th Northern General Hospital in Leicester. She served there until November 1918, when she died from Septic Pericarditis, following Influenza.
She was buried in Leicester (Welford Road) Cemetery but as her grave is unmarked, she is commemorated on the Screen Wall. O1. 198. Her body was interred in the soldiers corner of the cemetery.

Her coffin, which was covered with a Union flag, was borne to the cemetery on a gun carriage, followed by a large procession of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) staff and VAD nurses from North Evington and the base hospitals.

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

Courtesy of Cathy Sedgwick

The Catholic Press (Sydney, N.S.W.)  28-11-1918
By cable has come the announcement of , the death of Kathleen Adele Brennan, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brennan, of 'Woollahra. Miss Brennan went to England some two or three years ago; she was one of the V.A.D. who offered their services to the military authorities, and because of their special efficiency were accepted. Prior to leaving Sydney she had been doing work in one of the military hospitals, and had proved herself very capable in nursing. It was while doing duty in the North Evington War Hospital, Leicester, England, that she succumbed to influenza. Much sympathy is felt for Mr. and Mrs. Brennan, who have already been sufferers by the war, their second son having been killed about two years ago. Miss Adele Brennan, who was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay, was very popular amongst her old convent friends. —R.I.P.

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